What do you do with your empty beer cans and bottles? Throw it in the
dustbins. But do you know that these cans and bottles can be used to
design marvelous sculptures? Here’re 10 ways to recycle beer bottles and
cans. Read on.
1. Beer bottle chandelier
This chandelier is made of 52 empty beer bottle. Recycled bottle art
is a thing worth promoting as it will prevent environment from getting
ruined. This chandelier is much cheaper than chandelier made of fancy
glasses, so it is a good thing for those who want to add that special
feeling to their house without spending huge bucks for it. This
chandelier has eight bulbs on two levels and the design can be altered
as per customer’s requirements.
2. Buddhist temple made from one million beer bottles
Recycling is a great technology and some Thai monks have taken it to
the next level by designing a temple using recycled bottles of beer. The
temple named Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple designed by the monks from
Sisaket province is made up of a million recycled beer bottles. The
monks have used green colored bottles of Heineken Beer and brown colored
bottles of Chang Beer to build this temple.
3. Bottle solar heater
Chinese carpenter Ma Yanjunx is not a renowned designer but a simple
villager from Shaanxi Province who has designed and built a solar water
heater using beer bottles and hose pipes. Ma has fixed the bottles on a
board and these bottles are connected with hose pipes to allow the
entry of cold water. The board faces the sun and the water inside the
bottle gets heated when the sun rays fall on them. Ma came up with this
unique solar heater as he wanted to give warm water to her mother to
take bathe in winters.
4. Beer can clipboard
You can use beer can to design several small items which can be used
as decorative pieces in your homes. You can design an airplane, guitar,
trumpet and things like that using empty beer cans.
5. Beer can house
Most of us prefer to throw things after using them but there are some
who prefer not to throw things in dustbin and try to use the used
articles to come up with something artistic and useful. Beer can house
is the result of such thinking and vision. The empty cans are used
brilliantly to design a house which looks beautiful and unique.
6. Recycled radio
We all listen to radio but how many of us listen to green radio? The
green here means technology of recycling. Some South African visionary
has come up with a radio, which is made up of used beer cans, tops of
the bottles and scrap metal. The casing of the radio is made up of beer
cans and bottle tops.
7. Beer bottle as a brick
Alfred Heineken, who is a beer brewer by profession, came up with an
idea of using beer bottle as a brick and Dutch architect John Habraken
designed the “brick that holds beer”. Heineken was visiting the
Caribbean island when the idea of the Heineken WOBO (world bottle) hit
him. The WOBO comes in two sizes – 350 and 500 mm versions.
8. Recycled vase
Modern eco-friendly products industry is based on recycling and the
Transglass vase is just another example of designing aesthetically rich
products using recycled materials. Emma Woffenden has given a new
meaning to the word recycling through Transglass vases, which come in
various shapes, sizes and colors. The Transglass vase is worth $38 and
upwards which means that recycled materials are not always cheap.
9. Beer urban glasses
Have you ever thought of using unused beer bottles as spectacles?
Most probably, the answer would be “no” but someone has made urban
spectacles using unused beer glasses. The glasses look one of a kind and
yes they are eco-friendly. It’s certain that the person who will wear
these glasses will stand out in a crowd.
10. Recycled beer art
Benjamin Franklin once said that “Beer is proof that God loves us and
wants us to be happy.” Beer is definitely a unique thing and not many
things can match its qualities. But what is the use of empty beer
bottles? The answer will be trash, but not all people think so and some
are recycling these bottles to design artful pieces of arts.
Credits to ecofriend.....
